Webinar Recordings

Model analysis of cricket bat

Test, Risk and Cost Reduction Using MCQ and MS-PFA GENOA in a Building Block Approach for Impact and Compression after Impact.

In this webinar, AlphaSTAR Corporation (ASC) demonstrates a validated analysis verified by test for composite structure using its proprietary MCQ & GENOA software. The webinar presents the process by which an end user, in this case the ASC team, would qualify a newly developed resin for a laminated plate.

Advanced Topics in nCode DesignLife

Aerospace Defense Stress Analysis with StressCheck

Over the past 25 years, ESRD has pioneered and developed an advanced FEA numerical simulation technology that is well-suited for detailed stress analysis of complex parts associated with the aerospace defense industry.

Aerospace Fracture Mechanics using StressCheck

Altair’s Solutions for Full-Vehicle NVH Analysis

An important factor in improving vehicle quality and perception is guided by how vehicles are designed for noise, vibration and harshness, making NVH an important domain for the automotive industry. Altair and its Alliance Partners offer a complete solution for automotive NVH applications.

In this 45-minute webinar, we will give an overview of problems faced in the automotive industry for NVH analysis and how HyperWorks and Altair’s Partner technologies help address these issues, providing a complete solution that spans from modeling and assembly to analysis, diagnostic and optimization.

Analyzing Results and Other Post-Processing Features in JMAG Designer

Applications in the Simulation of Truck Dynamics using TruckSim

The objectives of the webinar will be to provide users with an introduction to the TruckSim software with enough detail to help them see potential applications for solving vehicle dynamics problems in their enterprise.

Brief Demo of LAP by Anaglyph

Casting Simulation for the Automotive Industry using Click2Cast

In this webinar, participants will learn how to use Click2Cast, a quick and easy to use validation tool. It will be shown how simple is to create a simulation to validate a component design or a manufacturing process before the production. The final goal is to show that simulation can be applied also during design stage in a very simple way and giving great results.

Casting Simulation for the Electronics and Consumer Goods Industry using Click2Cast

In this online webinar, participants will learn how to use Click2Cast, a quick and easy to use validation tool. It will be shown how simple is to create a simulation to validate a component design or a manufacturing process before the production.

The webinar will introduce MCQ Chopped from AlphaSTAR to the APA community. It will provide a description of the theoretical foundation of the software, which will explain how and why the product delivers accurate and reliable result in predicting material properties of chopped fiber laminates.

To predict accurately the safety, NVH, statics and fatigue performance of fiber reinforced polymers (FRP) parts in the automotive industry requires an advanced material model to take into account the effects of the manufacturing process on the local materials stiffness and strength.

In this webinar we will discuss the top challenges that are being presented in today's industries. Learn how owner/operators and OEMs use DigitalClone prognostic to better plan for future failure in order to reduce cost and optimize supply chain efforts.

Using the anisotropic material behavior of short fiber reinforced plastics by assigning the fiber orientation and appropriate material behavior to your parts easily. The general procedure and the outcoming benefit will be shown with industrial part examples using the software CONVERSE.

Crash Cad Calculate for Axial Crushing

Crash Cad Calculate for design and optimization of cross sections in a vehicle structure

This webinar will showcase several use cases illustrating the potential of Crash Cad Calculate (CCC) software in design and optimization of cross sections used in various assemblies of a vehicle structure with specific focus on design and optimization routines as well as import – export procedures.

The Matereality Workgroup Material DatabasePro solution enabled through the Altair Partner Alliance allows Altair HyperWorks users access to browser-based software to build and maintain productivity enhancing material databases on the same platform that they use for product design. The integration of materials data with CAE tools strengthens the material core of their group’s PLM.

This webinar introduces users to the newest software from Impact Design, Cross Section Creator (CSC). This new tool, which enriches the functionality and capabilities of Crash Cad Calculator (CCC), provides the possibility of fast and easy extraction of cross sections from a mesh model and consequently closes the optimization and design loop.

Total Materia provides the world’s most comprehensive material properties database covering over 250,000 metals, plastics, composites and a range of other non-metallic materials. This webinar is designed to help demonstrate how having the right information available at the right time can not only save hours and even days of sourcing but improve information accuracy and help optimize early critical design decisions.

Energy Finite Element Analysis for the Mobility Industry

Engine and Exhaust Modeling in RadTherm

This webinar covers modeling engine and exhaust heating in heavy equipment. The discussion will cover how RadTherm is used to quickly set up and analyze such complex thermal problems (steady-state or transient) that include conduction, multi-bounce radiation, and convection under realistic environments.

ESAComp for Enhancing HyperWorks in Composite Structures Design

The webinar gives an introduction to ESAComp as stand-alone tool, starting with a few success stories and explaining distinct features in a live demo. Special focus is given to the benefits of integrating ESAComp into the composite design workflow within HyperWorks 13.

ESAComp supporting the composite design process in the Automotive Industry

With the automotive industry more and more exploring the capabilities of composite materials, engineers face new challenges throughout the design process. For layered composite structures ESAComp is the right software to help you. This webinar will provide an overview on how to use ESAComp to efficiently tackle daily tasks concerning laminate design towards stiffness or strength criteria, structural elements (e.g. panels), data exchange with HyperWorks and integration into a workflow for optimization.

Experimental Modal Analysis of Gear Box Casing

Fatigue analysis in Heavy Industries – the larger the vehicle the higher the need for endurance on misuse

FEMFAT offers fatigue life prediction (FLP) of all vehicle components (engine, gearbox, chassis, frames, car bodies and structures) and machinery equipment based on Finite Element Analyses (FEA). Additionally to consideration of complex multi-axial loadings an assessment of welding seams as well as spot welds and self piercing rivets in steel and aluminium can be carried out.

Fatigue Analysis with Non-linear Geometric Loading

Fatigue of Welds for Heavy Equipment using DesignLife

This webinar will review underlying methodology and approaches in DesignLife for predicting the fatigue life of welds using finite element models consisting of either shell or solid elements. A demonstration will review how DesignLife can be used for predicting fatigue life using a weld definition created by HyperMesh and stress results from OptiStruct.

FEMFAT Joining Techniques using FEMFAT spot & FEMFAT weld

FEMFAT Webinar: Fatigue analysis is everywhere

FEMFAT is applied to mechanical systems in nearly all disciplines involving fatigue aspects. Engineers can follow the results and obtain approval from regulations such as GL Wind Renewables, IIW, Eurocode3 and British Standards.

Finding the Ideal Location for your Part with Moldex3D

Moldex3D offers a true 3D analysis of a part, ensuring that all problematic issues have been addressed. One of the more overlooked problems in creating a part is picking where the best location for a gate should be. This webinar will cover how Moldex3D can help users to optimize their parts gate locations, and understand how gate location affects everything from how a part warps, to how well a part will pack out.

Frequency Response using FEMFAT Spectral Module

From Injection Molding to Mechanical Simulation - Added Value for FEA Through Integrated Solutions with CONVERSE

In this webinar, learn how CONVERSE can be used effectively for electronics and consumer goods made of plastics. FEA is frequently applied, as often these products undergo high mechanical as well as thermal loads a proper strength assessment is decisive.

High Speed Impact Analysis on Advanced, Lightweight Materials using MultiMech

This 1/2 hour session will offer a brief introduction of the MultiMech software and a detailed training on the modeling and structural analysis of composites experiencing dynamic loads and ballistic impacts

Improving Success Rates in Defense Projects using PTB

In this webinar the PTB Analytics, an advanced project planning tool will be presented along with relevant information for how it helps users achieve better project results. A specific use case from the defense industry will be used.

Innovative CFD Software SC/Tetra for automotive applications

Integration between Moldex3D and HyperStudy Improving Part Quality for Injection Molding in the Automotive Industry

In this webinar, we will present step-by-step about how to integrate Moldex3D with HyperStudy to perform the DOE analysis to optimize the injection molding process. Industrial cases will be presented to showcase the advantages of the integrate analysis.

Frequency domain analysis is the method of choice for dynamic analysts and CAEfatigue VIBRATION will act like a turbo charger for such methods. This makes it a valuable new tool for durability estimates on large automotive systems and fatigue life calculations for aerospace systems where mixed random and deterministic loads are specified.

Introduction to Maple and MapleSim by Maplesoft

Introduction to Matereality Workgroup Material Database Pro

Learn how Matereality offers the building tools and engineer-focused software to allow workgroups to collect, share, and use any material data in full interactive detail, using a patented technology to store any properties of any material on a single platform.

Introduction to MDS by Multiscale Design Systems

Introduction to nCode DesignLife 10.0 Tutorial

The tutorial will provide an introduction to the nCode user interface and attendees will become familiar with how 'glyphs' are used to create processes. Both Stress-Life (SN) and Strain-Life (EN) fatigue calculations on FE models will be demonstrated.

Introduction to NovaFlow & Solid CV – Casting process simulation

The webinar is intended that the attendees will learn more about the functionality and potentials using NovaFlow&Solid CV for Heavy Industry manufacturing and development of the castings. NovaFlow&Solid CV is a casting process simulation program that we believe is FASTER, EASIER and MORE accurate than the competing softwares.

This webinar will show how automotive designers can use LAP and CoDA to prepare a laminated plate or structure, examine its behavior under load, overall or layer-by-layer. LAP checks specific points of any laminate, whilst CoDA examines the structure as a whole.

Making Material Libraries with AlphaSTAR's MCQ Composite Software

Model-Based Design and Development in Automotive Applications using Maple and MapleSim

This webinar will present a range of comprehensive examples using MapleSim to model complex automotive systems. Specific case studies will include full vehicle modeling, active suspension, stability control, steering and more.

This webinar will cover how you can use ChassisSim to quickly construct a high fidelity multibody vehicle model and use the features of ChassisSim to get the answers you need quickly for both motor sport and automotive use.

Multiaxial Fatigue using FEMFAT Max

MultiMechanics for the Composites Industry

This training will be a broad overview of the challenges associated with the modeling and simulation of composite parts and will be useful for materials and design engineers who are currently working with or interested in working with advanced materials.

Multi-Scale Progressive Fatigue/Failure Analysis Using GENOA

New Developments in Total Materia Premium Edition, including HyperMesh Integration

Showcasing the new Total Materia Premium Edition, see exactly how you can gain access to properties for over 240,000 metallic and non-metallic materials, use international cross reference tables, search stress strain and cyclic properties and much much more.

Online Training: Design Profit by Munro & Associates

Online Training: ESAComp by Componeering

Learn the basics of ESAComp in under 2 hours. The training covers material database, creation and evaluation of laminates, load response/failure analysis of structural elements as well as FE import and export capabilities.

This training will cover the concepts for composite analysis ‘from start to finish’. Students will leave with the ability to begin performing sub element verifications with calibrated (verified and validated) inputs.

Online Training: PTB by Sandbox Model (Part 2)

Online Training: Total Materia by Key to Metals

The Total Materia Premium Edition training session, exclusively for Altair users will cover extensive demonstrations within the product and show how to navigate and effectively find material properties data.

Overview of FEKO Suite 6.3

This tutorial will give an overview of the new features in new release FEKO Suite 6.3. The following features will be highlighted: Support of curvilinear elements, higher order basis functions, understanding radiation through characteristic mode analysis.

Learn how GENOA can be used to couple different analysis types together using different FE solvers so that advanced structures can be analyzed and assessed for damage initiation and propagation, fracture initiation and propagation using the engineering technology of choice.

The Unique Thermal Dynamics of Heavy Vehicles

This webinar will discuss the advantages of using ThermoAnalytics’ software for the modeling of exhaust systems and engines in heavy vehicles. The webinar will be an in-depth look into thermal modeling processes specific to the heavy vehicle industry.

Design Profit® is a methodology and a process that exposes waste and risk in the product design so engineers can make informed trades to reduce complexity and create elegant designs for downstream stakeholders.

Using ThermoFlo to speed up your engineering calculations

Learn how to use ThermoFlo to quickly do many of the back of the envelope calculations that are part of an engineer’s everyday life. Quickly size components or get a feel for a temperature without having to use any property lookup tables.

Vibration Fatigue Analysis in DesignLife Tutorial

Vibro-acoustic Simulations in Heavy Industry

With the help of Coustyx from ANSOL, a powerful fast multipole boundary elements (FMBEM) solver, engineers in the heavy machinery industry can now build intricate models of real life systems and perform vibro-acoustic simulations over a broad frequency range.

Vibro-acoustic Simulations in the Automotive Industry

Virtual Prototyping and Dynamic Load Analysis in Machine Design

Through the development of virtual prototypes of concepts that capture the dynamics of the system (or systems) early in the design process, machine designers can avoid many issues that often arise during the integration and prototyping stages.

In this webinar, we will present an overview of the features and benefits of VMAP. In addition, the webinar will feature a case study that shows users how VMAP can be used to solve vibration problems in automotive products during the early design stages and accelerate product development.